Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe stood near his locker about four hours ahead of Saturday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Uribe had left the game Friday with a sore right hamstring, the same one that caused him to miss more than a month earlier this season.

Uribe wore a forlorn look when asked how he felt.

“Not too good,” he said. “I’m going on the DL. I don’t want to go, but it’s not too good.”

Uribe originally hurt the hamstring May 8 in a game against San Francisco. He missed five games, then played five before aggravating the injury and going on the disabled list for a month and five days. That’s the main reason Uribe was disabled Saturday.

“Being the same leg, the last time he felt good in four or five days and then he played three or four and then he missed 30 days,” manager Don Mattingly said. “That’s the one thing that we don’t want to have happen. So we’re going to be cautious and DL him today.”

Mattingly was asked if it all has given him some indigestion. He managed a quick laugh.

“I mean, you never want to see any of your guys go down,” he said. “But I look at it and try to be optimistic. I think Hanley, we feel like he’s doing pretty well. He was able to do some things yesterday. Feeling like when it’s time for him to come off (Aug. 24), he’s going to be ready to come off. That’s a positive in our eyes. The positive with Papi (Uribe), we feel like he’ll be ready to go in two weeks.”

Infielder Carlos Triunfel was called up to replace Uribe.

Greinke feels strong

Zack Greinke has not won a game since July 25, when he pitched seven scoreless innings in an 8-1 victory over San Francisco. That’s not the last time Greinke pitched well, however, as he did throw eight innings of one-run ball with 13 strikeouts July 30 against Atlanta. The Dodgers won that 3-2, but Greinke did not get the decision.

Greinke’s next two starts were subpar by his standards. He gave up five runs — three earned — in a 5-0 loss to the Angels on Aug. 4 and four earned runs in six innings of a 4-1 loss at Milwaukee on Aug. 9. That was followed by Friday’s effort against the Brewers, where Greinke threw 99 pitches in just five shutout innings. He left leading 2-0, but got a no-decision when Milwaukee rallied against the bullpen for a 6-3 win.

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The good news is, Greinke intimated he is feeling fine physically.

“I guess today I felt really strong, just wasn’t pitching good,” he said late Friday night. “But I guess you could say I felt stronger than the last couple starts.”

Greinke said he could have pitching longer Friday, his growing pitch-count notwithstanding.

“Not really that,” he said, when asked about the dead-arm period pitchers often experience at this time of the season. “Ninety-nine pitches, I felt like I had at least an inning, maybe even two or three more innings. I still felt really good. Just the way pitch counts are, you worry more about what the pitch count is than how the pitcher’s feeling.”

He wasn’t complaining about being lifted.

“I wouldn’t say it was the wrong decision,” he said. “No matter how good I felt, I wasn’t pitching great.”

Greinke (12-8) lowered his ERA from 2.84 to 2.75. He’s one of the three starters — Clayton Kershaw and Ryu are the others — expected to make most of the starts in the playoffs.

Man of few words

Brewers manager Ron Roenicke on Friday was speaking with reporters ahead of the series opener. He was asked what the differences are between last season when the Brewers struggled to a 74-88 record, and this season, where the first-place Brewers had a two-game lead over St. Louis in the NL Central before Saturday.

Last year, of course, was also the season when Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun was suspended for the rest of the season beginning in late July when he violated the league’s drug policy.

This is the fourth year managing the Brewers for Roenicke, who prepped at Edgewood High in West Covina and played college ball at UCLA. He guided the Brewers to the playoffs in his rookie season in 2011. They went 83-79 in 2012.